Bug#884226: debian-policy: please add EPL-1.0 to common licenses
Hi,
Markus Koschany wrote:
> I would like to argue that disk space is no longer an issue in 2017 and
> people with special needs (embedded systems) will most likely remove
> /usr/share/common-licenses anyway.
I agree: space on installation media and network transfer time are more
important than disk space these days.
> Thus the more DFSG-licenses we
> install into /usr/share/common-licenses the more time can be saved for
> more important issues than quoting licenses.
I'm confused. Can you explain your workflow a little more?
I wouldn't expect using upstream's LICENSE file to take significantly
more time than replacing it with a pointer to common-licenses. I'd
actually expect it to take more time.
If all we care about is maintainer time spent, then we should
eliminate common-licenses.
Puzzled,
Jonathan
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